it goes on.

life.

life is unexpected. everything, completely unexpected. life is when your uncle gets a brain tumor and life is when every once of information you get continues to get worse... and worse.  life. it's what changes your name and changes your grades and changes your personality and style and relationships.  life. it's what makes you fall in love, it's what makes you fall out of it.  life is the oxygen we breathe into our lungs and every flutter of our eyelids.  life is the late-night blogging and the forever long procrastination of research papers.  life is every moment we choose to let go and every second we cherish.  life is our opportunities, it's our good days and our bad days, it's our failures and our triumphs.  life is getting up after someone pushes you to the ground and probably stomps on you a couple times cause they really have no heart, and no soul for that matter.  life is what compels your friends to send you messages containing the words "i miss you friend, come back" and life is what makes you come back, every time.  life is what hurts your feelings and life is what makes you forgive.  life is your family, your friends, anything that walks into your life and steps all over your heart. life is hating people and loving people, and life is hopefully having the love outweigh the hate. life is attempting to do math and life is having a friend to teach it to you six times. and life is what makes you feel like an idiot half the time and the champion of the world the other half.  life is what makes us emotional, it's what whispers to us we deserve better. life's what causes all break-ups and life's what causes every change.  life is what makes you sporadically write a missionary and life is what makes you pray he scribbles a note back for you.  life is what makes the q on this keyboard difficult to press and life is what makes you press that q until it goes. life is what changes you and life is what changes me.  life is what makes you hope that every change is good. life gives you second chances, and third chances, and fourth chances.  life gives you room for improvement and life doesn't fail you, you're the one that can fail life.

if i've learned one thing about life, it's that it goes on.

you cannot change the past, but you can change your future.

"things change and people change, and life doesn't stop for anybody."

b.

p.s. guess who's going on a recruiting trip this weekend? me! don't be too excited. okay, be excited, cause i'm stoked and stuff.

things change, people change.

today at practice i had an epiphany: things change, people change. my friends have changed, i've changed. i think i've almost moved on from the whole high school scene. i am no longer that immature high school girl who cares what other people think. i have realized in the past week how much i actually don't care. at the beginning of summer i would have cared a lot that i was losing a friend; now, i don't. not one bit. maybe that's a bad thing, but i have realized that she isn't a type of friend worth working towards. i feel like my old friends are still stuck in that phase. the phase where the image is better than the quality. if it doesn't look cool to be nice to someone, they sure as heck won't... but if you're cool enough, they'll be your best friend. i hate that. i've moved forward from that. i don't want that in my life.

my best friends are quality people. people who will be nice to everyone... whether it's in style or not.

kindness never goes out of style.

"let go."

b.